submachine

Definitions

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n. A part of a real or virtual machine which acts as a machine in its own right

Etymologies

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sub- +‎ machine

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Shortened from submachine gun

Examples

The term submachine gun, repeated in military reports and official correspondence for years, was pejorative, as if the AK-47 did not deserve to be discussed in the same conversation with hard-hitting American battle rifles.

According to court documents and testimony, Graves and ex-girlfriend Tania Besek had previously broken up and Graves went to her apartment with a box of ammunition and a TEC-9, a handgun that is sometimes referred to as a submachine gun.

This was quite a traffic mess for a while, as officers in black fatigues carrying what we would call submachine guns would stop each vehicle, didn't matter if they were just the white vans that they've looked for before, that type of thing, each and every vehicle, including motorcycles, and would search both the vehicle and the male drivers.

Among the equipment in the residence were more than 4,600 rounds of ammunition, night-vision goggles, a ballistic vest and at least 27 firearms, including what was described as a submachine gun with a silencer and a carbine with a laser sight.

After all, only a few weeks ago the Fifa vice-president was threatening to unleash "a football tsunami", so at the very least one expected him to open fire like Tony Montana at the top of the staircase at Fifa's Zurich HQ, or even advance out of the building in his pyjamas and dressing gown, unloading endless submachine gun rounds, in the manner of Albert Finney in Miller's Crossing.

In an uncharacteristically brief statement, the al-Qaeda leader, dressed in a camouflage jacket with a submachine gun propped at his side, said that the attacks were revenge for the long-standing Western humiliation of the Muslim world, consistently his most important theme.